Reviewing AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Digerati Technologies (OTCMKTS:DTGI)

AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Digerati Technologies (OTCMKTS:DTGI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares AvePoint and Digerati Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AvePoint	0.55%	0.66%	0.40%
Digerati Technologies	11.49%	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for AvePoint and Digerati Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AvePoint	0	5	9	1	2.73
Digerati Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

AvePoint currently has a consensus target price of $18.66, indicating a potential upside of 49.19%. Given AvePoint’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe AvePoint is more favorable than Digerati Technologies.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AvePoint and Digerati Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AvePoint	$330.48 million	8.17	-$29.09 million	N/A	N/A
Digerati Technologies	$22.76 million	0.19	-$810,000.00	$0.02	0.95

Digerati Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AvePoint.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.5% of AvePoint shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of AvePoint shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of Digerati Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

AvePoint has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digerati Technologies has a beta of -0.06, indicating that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

AvePoint beats Digerati Technologies on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AvePoint

AvePoint, Inc. provides cloud-native data management software platform in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It also offers software-as-a-service solutions and productivity applications. The company offers modularity and cloud services architecture to address critical challenges and the management of data to organizations that leverage third-party cloud vendors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, AWS, Box, DropBox, and others; license and support; and maintenance services. AvePoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Digerati Technologies

Digerati Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a portfolio of Internet-based telephony products and services through its cloud application platform and session-based communication network in the United States. The company offers Internet broadband, fiber, mobile broadband, and cloud wide area network (WAN) or software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions; cloud communication services, including fully hosted IP/PBX, video conferencing, mobile applications, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) transport, session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking, call center applications, auto attendant, voice and web conferencing, call recording, messaging, voicemail to email conversion, integrated mobility applications, and customized VoIP services; and remote network monitoring, data backup, and disaster recovery services, as well as enterprise-class data and connectivity solutions, such as cloud WAN or SD-WAN, fiber, mobile broadband, and Ethernet over copper services. It primarily serves small to medium-sized enterprise customers through distributors and value-added resellers. The company was formerly known as ATSI Communications Inc. and changed its name to Digerati Technologies, Inc. in March 2011. Digerati Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.